Susan's Pendulum

I decided that we would begin decluttering after Rachel moved out. Uhhhh, that was at the end of May. (Don't you EVEN think of telli...

More and more colleges are building dorms with suites that consist of four or five tiny bedrooms and a private bathroom and possibly a kitch...

When everything looks entirely hopeless (in a temporal sense) it gets wearying. Then God sends Christian friends with support in the forms ...

Yesterday I had tea and cookies. "What's wrong with that?" you ask. Uhhhhh, all I had was tea and cookies. I had a couple of...

Narcotics and men in their seventies do not mix. On the evening of Dad's surgery (a couple of weeks ago) I was sitting with him after ev...

Wooohoooo! Paul got back his ACT scores and they were good! Maggie's swimming teacher stopped me after class and told me how rapidly sh...

AGAIN they picked up stones to stone Jesus? AGAIN? Y'know, when you start looking at what was happening that year, no wonder the disci...

It's been about 19 years, I think, that our family has been eating dinner in the middle of the day instead of in the evening like normal...

We're always being told that "dying congregations" are a very bad thing. Congregations should be ALIVE, not dying, right? Bu...

All right, it's one thing when you hear a coyote or two howling at night. But now there's a pack of them. And they're getting ...

I found this in an article by Dr Scaer, published in a 1980 Lutheran Synod Quarterly and reprinted in a 1983 Concordia Theological Quarterly...

Ah, success! I saw that Pastor Esget's blog rated a "College Level." So I had to try it too. Being a homeschool mommy, my g...

I guess this post is going to reveal how out-of-the-loop I am on current events. The kids and I got behind on our current events newspaper ...

We watched an animated movie last night that came recommended through Backwoods Home Magazine . Because Claire Wolfe's review talked ab...

Thank God for the soldiers who defend us!

Last October I wrote a blogpost about saving a cute Halloween shirt from wretched stain. The pertinent paragraph is: So to make my shirt w...

A few of us were at a College Visit Day today. As we were touring the campus, I noticed an announcement on the in-house tv station. Appare...

When I'm taking a shower, do I really need to know that So-and-So picked up the kitten? While my hair is lathered with shampoo, am I p...

I haven't worn shoes with heels for ages. I mean, like, years. And by "heels," I mean something where my heels are even with...

Band-aids do not cure cuts. Band-aids do not help a wound to heal. Band-aids are useful in keeping a cut clean, so that infection is not ...